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“I feel like I have wings now.”
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“I feel like I have wings now.”
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Making It Count
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Making It Count
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“Kneeling over his body, all I could hear was, ‘I may not get there with you.'”
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“Kneeling over his body, all I could hear was, ‘I may not get there with you.'”
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“He could take something mundane like that and see the magic in it.”
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“He could take something mundane like that and see the magic in it.”
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Things Are Looking Up
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Things Are Looking Up
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Doing Good

Listen to stories of people helping their communities and doing what's right.

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"You can hear the shopping cart coming down the sidewalk."

"You can hear the shopping cart coming down the sidewalk."
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“And you said, ‘I want you to do that house, please.’”
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“And you said, ‘I want you to do that house, please.’”
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My Father, the Giant

My Father, the Giant
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"When I first bought the building, everybody thought that I was crazy."
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"When I first bought the building, everybody thought that I was crazy."

Get to Know StoryCorps

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An Introduction to StoryCorps from our Founder
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Stories to Lift Your Spirit

Voices of Civil Rights

Deepen your understanding of the history of civil rights in America by listening to the voices of people who live it.

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"He really talked that night."
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"He really talked that night."

Taylor Rodgers and his wife Bessie were at the Mason Temple when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous ”I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” speech.
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“Being in a place like that, I didn’t feel like we was human.”
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“Being in a place like that, I didn’t feel like we was human.”

In 1963, more than a dozen African American girls, including Carol Barner-Seay, Shirley Reese, Diane Bowens, and Verna Hollis, were arrested for protesting segregation in Americus, Georgia. At StoryCorps, they remember being held in a small makeshift jail for nearly two months.
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"We walked every day from sunup to sunset."
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"We walked every day from sunup to sunset."

Lawrence Cumberbatch tells his son about walking from New York City to Washington, D.C., to take part in the August 1963 March on Washington.
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“I said, ‘Dr. King, I am John Robert Lewis.’”
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“I said, ‘Dr. King, I am John Robert Lewis.’”

John Lewis remembers how Dr. King’s words inspired him to join the civil rights movement.